Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-02-18
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DEAR REVIEW: Some one who modestly
witholds his name says Bro. Hill and have
set him to thinking, thank God for that! Ii
is always a hopeful sign when men begin to
think, though have looked in vain for much
activity of that noble faculty in his brief Now
Mr.. Hills thinking power commands
my respect. Twas the exercise of
thought Of men and women within
our own memory that freed our brethren in
black in America. Long live pure, free, un.
predjudlced thought. Yes brother l gladly
part company with you when you say, ''If the
appeal is made to reason and experience, pray
what do we know of the unalterable laws of
nature. Queer logic is that If ] am not 10
use the highest gift our Heavenly Father has
| transmitted to His offspring for fear Of losing
faith in anything, will hold to Reason every
time. John the beloved disciple says, s'Ia tbs
beginning was the word tLogosl tReasonI and
the Logos was with God, and Logos ras God"
tI merely carry the Greek word Logos-ie
word over.l See DIR. Youngs concordance
also other authority / can readily cite. Your
correspondent says people like 10 be himbug-
ged, very likely, my husband thinks we do
when we give meals victuals TO every hungry
tramp who asks it. But for tramp OF low
repute, who homeless and weary tramped over
the Judean hills and of Palestine long ago we
for his sake try to put in practice his sublime
teachings that seem sadly out of place among
his worshippeis to day. But such servants as
VIM. Denton, PROS. Wallace, Zollner, Crooks
and J. r. Buchanan are not likely TO give Gre
dence to any doctrine whose foundation is
other than purely scientific. He seems to
think am poaching by my question, why so7
Tread my bible free from superstitious dread.
Yet with reverence due subject treating of
how an ancient people apprehended and sought
after God. Yet all Of this fades away behind
the dark ages IN comparison with the testimony
of millions Of witnesses of the present time. |
did not object to the Bible at all, in answering
Mr. Hill. simply called him to order for
stating the teaching Of spiritalism, without con-
sulting the esoteric as we'll as exoteric side Of
this PHILOSOPHY. Spiritualism has literature
OF no mean pretention. Spiritualists do not
think that the Holy Spirit left the world to
orope in darkness when the Amen OF the apoc-
alypse was written butisyet leading thera into
all truth as its development makes possible the
condition. The working of the spirit OF truth
is as evident in the printing press, the rail
road, telephone &C., as in the conversion of
prosecuting Saul Of Tarsus into the self-sacri6
eng propagandist of a religion which he says ne
ignorantly prosecuted, he is by no means the
best one whose bitter prosecuting zeal has been
turned into an earnest faith. do no: consult
my Bible on scientific subjects, in it find very
little to endorse either Franklin, Morse or
Edison and it leaves me in ignorance Of the
great glacial periods that overwhelmed the
continents, even Paul failed to see how it was
possible for married woman to dc her own
thinking.
Ithas been the mission Of this modern move in
spirituasm il is as old as the race it is to- recon-
cile religion and science, even now great minded
men who once denied, see nothing contradic-
tory IN science to the possibility of a finer,
more energetic spiritualized body living in
this coarse envelope of matter and at the touch
OF death passing out into the region of sublim
ated matte: thrilling With intensified energy
those old llppant criticism of darkened rooms,
&C, belong to the past, true there is a law Of
condition as necessary now as in the Bible
times, even Jesus was subject TO this law, he
did not many mighty works at his home be
cause Of their unbelief If one wishes to send
telegram does he employ Scene Painter9
Does he not employ the right medium skilled
TO his work and surrounded by condition. Is
there any sense in an ignorant man saying to
an astronomer don't believe in a comet, if it
exists, bring it on? or will say you are fraud9
Nay the patient scholar may have to wait years
to convince the ignorant objector of the exis-
tencc of comet; come my friend look up what
other writer's and religions have said and now
say, if our loving Father and His laws, who
revealed TO the PeruYians knowledge of law
and faith in the Power dwelling in light in
approachable? What book revealed to the
Mexicans the mystery Of the cross1 Was it
not the everywhere Holy Spirit ever brooding
over the Universal Brotherhood of man reveal
ing to them as they struggled up toward truth
a higher power enveloping and moving in them
teaching them to find our Father in the IIcav
ems. Oh that all religionists whether spirital
ist, christian or Pagan may all become more
spiritualized into the image of Him whose
overcoming is typihed by the wooden cross on
which he passed up to bis higher mission in
the spirit world leaving the glory Of his unself-
ish life as mark toward which we struggle
feeling confident that as He has been lifted up,
he will draw all men unto him the highway of
right living is always the way and the only
path Mrs. REAME.
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